Category Archives: Writers Group

The Needs Assessment Findings Are Here!

Introducing the Needs Assessment: Purpose and Context Purpose This document serves to consolidate the results of our consultations with a broad segment of the Montreal Anglophone community which included: young people (mostly but not exclusively girls and women), college students and faculty, high school students, librarians, counselors, teachers, university students, school board personnel, the video

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How to Respond Online: Two Gently Humorous Takes on How to Deal with Online Arguments

(Thanks for sharing Eric!) The first is a lovely cartoon by Ronnie Ritchie via Everyday Feminism on how to respond when you are criticized online. Here’s a quick preview: Funny. I am in the middle of reading a book entitled The Curse of the Good Girl by Rachel Simmons. In it she addresses how girls

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UN Press Release: Urgent action needed to combat online violence against women and girls, says new UN report

Via UN Women -Thanks for sharing, Shanly! It looks like our project has a much heftier, international sister working towards the same goals. I learned that there is a handy new acronym for cyberviolence against women and girls (cyber vawg). Ok, it is possible that VAWG existed already and I was simply unaware of it…

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Burning down the house: Using Woolf’s Three Guineas as a template for a manifesto against gendered cyberviolence, part I

This post was originally published on in(parent)thesis  June 16, 2015 by linabranter I attended a symposium about a month ago for stakeholders of a Status of Women grant to brainstorm strategies with which to “eliminate and prevent cyberviolence”. I know. Kind of a herculean task, don’t you think? Might as well ask, how do I

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FemHack: Right in our Backyard!

Who knew? I came across this article today entitled, “FemHack- Feminism and Hacking Converge in a Montreal Tech Collective” by Christina Haralanova and Sophie Toupin while doing a bit of research on feminist design hacks for cyberviolence. I was pleasantly surprised to see this happening in Montreal and am very interested to see where it

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